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The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1887-05-06
PATHS Two Hour Drive.

Nine. Patti takes two hour drive through
the park and on the road daily Signor
Nicolini accompanies her almost invariably.
The happy pair usually occupy closed car
riage, but one day this week they ventured
forth in open vehicle. Mme Patti and Signor
Nicolini sit bolt upright, look straight before
them, and are never seen to converse. The
prima donna, however. keeps awake when in
Signor Nicolini's company. A friend who
bowed to her one day when she was escorted
by her pretty niece, Carlina, was surprised at
first when his salute was not returned. APP
her carriage second time, be dis
covered that Nine. Patti was asleep, or so
deeply plunged in thought that nobody
would have known the difference between q
songtress' meditation and her slumber.-
New York Sun. -
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1887-05-06
AN AFFEcTloNATE CAT.
A Maltese Thomas Whieh Shows Decld-
Adj, Cnulna Trnifa NJ Eldellfx.

A Maltese Thomas Whieh Shows Decid'
elIy Canine Traits Of Fidelity.
1t Ia universally held that the cat cannot
experience sufficient affection for person to
develop the passion Of jealousy. which every
one knows Is common enough In the canine
race. l am prepared to produce at least ono
cat that will dispute this aspersion OF its kind.
1t Ia a superb maltese thomas Of the pur-
est breed and bears the name of Frisco,
conferred upon II as diminutive for San
Francisco It has been brought up from kit
tenhood by its present mistress, and has de-
veloped all the traits Of fidelity common to
the dog. 1t follows at its owners heels about
the house and even attempts to pursue her
when she goes out. It watches for her return
at tho door, and after any prolonged absence
exhibits sulkiness at what 1t evidently regards
as unjustiHable neglect. The only period of
the day or night at which it voluntarily
leaves her side is in the morning, when it
scratches at the maids door to wake her up,
and fawns upon her for its breakfast At oil
other times it avoids the girl and will permit
no fondling by her.
A few days ago stray kitten wandered
into the house and the women fed and fondled
it and permitted it the run Of the place.
IIASCO was lIuutiC uAAu eoNo ~ DuoCio ao ohSS'
Tho kitten found the handsome basket in
which Frisco sleeps on sheepskin mat, and
csolly took possession Of it. The owner of
the basket tormented the air with back fence
lamentations The interloper was reclaimed
next day, much to the satisfaction Of Frisco,
who had spent most Of the time splitting at it
or suRling in a dark corner, where he could
watch it, growing necessarily. Since the
fateful hsur at which the kitten had slept in
his basket he has refused to enter it. When
his mistress puts him in he speedily escapes
and hides himself. He follows her about as
usual, but whenever she makes the usual ap-
proaches to him he utters petulant new Of
protest. The cat is as wild with jealousy as
any woman ever was, and is perfectly femi-
nine in the manifestations Of the passion.
He is at present being fed on tenderloin
steaks and broiled quail, in the hope that he
will consent to make up and be friends again.
But he resents all advances, though he leaves
nothing of the quail but the bones-Alfred
Tumble in New York News.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1887-05-06
A Paris Detectives shrewdne.s.

It is so seldom that detectives in real life
actually do anything very clever that it is
worth while recording their achievements,
however slight, when they show some degree
Of ingenuity and devotion. The hero of this
story is Detective Blusset. For two or three
weeks he had been watching three men whom
he suspected Of practicing crime by the theft
of teams and wagons left standing in the
street. With brother detective, Garnier,
Blusset day or two ago saw the three thieves
following wagon loaded with four casks.
Presently the teamster stopped at saloon
and went inside. Immediately the thieves
got to work. Two Of them remained on the
ground to keep watch, while the third mount
ed briskly to the drivers seat and drove rap
idly away. Leaving GARNER to see to the
arrest of the two watchers, which was soon
accomplished, Blusset set off on a run in pur,
suit of the flying wagon. It was not long
before he was blowing like porpoise under
the unusual exercise, and he began to think
that perhaps he would better give up the
chase, when the horses became suddenly I'M
manageable and the wagon stopped. The
animals in all probability were FESTIVE at the
sound of a strange voice directing them.
This was Blusset's opportunity, and, rum
uluH lUTWSIu WIN dA oil VI kACAu SOCu
nature, he assisted the thief to get the horses
under control He could have arrested the
fellow then and there, but there was where
he showed his cleverness; he wanted to arrest
also the thief's accomplice, so be let the wagon
proceed again, after having received the
thanks Of the driver for assistance. But as it
rolled away Blusset climbed upon the steps at
at the tail board Of the wagon, and squatted
there out of sight should the driver happen to
turn his head When the thief finally stopped
it was before the establishment on the boule-
yard Menilmontant. Blusset quickly dis
mounted and retired. He saw the thief greet
the concierge of the establishment and with
his assistance begin to unload the casks.
The detective ran for a policeman and with
tho aid of the first one he met succeeded in
arresting both the thief and his accomplish
It is not often that crime is SO thoroughly
worked and all parties to it secured at single
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1887-05-06
International Cremation Congress.

It is intended to hold all international con-
gress on cremation in September Of the pres
elIt year. The place selected fer this gather
ing Of the savants of various countries who
are interested in cremation and cemetery
hygiene is Milan. French will be the official
language Of the congress; but the speakers
may, if they like, make use of any other
language. Reports will be submitted as to
progress made in the practice of cremation
in different countries, and the formation
of I'M international league will be proposed.
An exhibition Of models of crenlatories, urns
and other objects connected with the cam
paign now being conducted against the pres
emit methods Of disposing Of the dead will
be open during the congress. - Chicago
Herald
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1887-05-06
Wax in the KeyhOle.

One afternoon recently Boston man found
his keyhole stopped with wax when he went
home in the afternoon. The police were asked
to try to catch the parties who had taken the
impression of the lock- The officers secreted
themselves in the house and prepared for Q
nights watch for the thieves, who were ex-
pected to descend upon the place. But early
in the evening II was explained that the
governess, who has q sweet tooth, is in the
habit of carrying caramels in the same pocket
with her door key, and some Of the sweet
meats stuck to the key. She used It during
the day, and the waxy appearing substance
became scraped from the key and remained
in the lock.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1887-05-06
DRIVING THROUGH THE SKY.
A Wonderful Mirage Seen In City %
Night.

A Wonderful Mirage Seen In . City 81
Night.
Describing curious illusion observed one
night last week In Memphis. Tenn, writer
In The Avalanche says: hoard q noise az II
q span OF horses were coming up the street
with some sort Of vehicle. thought 1t was
hack approaching, until heard the ring of
bells, and then concluded that 1t must be .
street car, but upon looking at my watch !
saw that II was rather late for car to be out
An instant before had heard a rumbling
noise as IL train of cars were passing over
q bridge, and when looked up saw, about
fifty feet up In the air and apparently only
100 yards from us. span Of horses with fash
ing tails and harness, and moving along at .
rapid pace. The shapes Of the animals were
as clearly defined in the atmosphere as IL one
had seen them hitched to q vehicle on the
ground. The whole picture was there only
an instant before it passed out Of sight, but
following the horses came q street car, like
one of those used on the Madison street lines.
You could see the platforms and the ratings
around them. The tongue Of the car and the
traces connecting it with the horses In front
of it were also graphically portrayed, and the
windows and cone shaped roof were per-
fectly represented.
The mirage was passing up Main toward
the north, and in that direction as it moved
along We could hear distinctly the sounds Of
the horses hoofs on the cobble stones and the
rumble of the wheels along the rails. The
noise grew less and less distinct every mo-
ment after the mysterious vehicle had passed
out Of sight, and at last, when all had quieted
down, we could hear nothing. The ap-
partition was undoubtedly nothing but the
reflection of real street car, running along
neighboring street, upon the clouds of dust
which filed the air.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1887-05-06
DEATH OF "TULE DAD"
4 Remarkable Character Well Known to
OLA CAlIfornlAns.

4 Remarkable Character Well Known {,
Old Californians.
Old "Tulo Dad, remarkable old noun
tain man, who early made name among tn,
hunters and Indian fighters Of the Sierras
crossed over to the golden shore about ten
days ago at jess valley, Modoc county, Cal
He had reached the great age of 1903 years
and died at last with mind uninpaired and
vigorous as when he had but Just passed hil
half century mark "Tule Dadn was born
somewhere In Missouri at the time st. Louil
was the headquarters Of several big fur trad
ing companies. It was by enlisting az a
hunter with one Of these that he found his
way through the Rockies and eventually
across the Sierras to California.
"Tule Dad" Is remembered by number of
old Calif0rnians who are now In the Com.
stock. They looked upon him as being q
wonderful old man in the "days of 49," when
gold was first discovered He was a man
who preferred hunting and Indian fighting to
gold digging.
A story is told of him which will bear re-
peating. In the early days some men who
were campcd on the banks Of the Sacramento
river, above Marysville, ON the Fourth of
July, concluded to celebrate the day. They
began firing guns and pistols, and for an hour
or two kept up a lively fusillade. Presently
their attention was attracted to half a dozen
black objects bobbing up and down on the
waters of the river. As these objects drew
nearer they were seen to be men swimming
across the stream, with their clothing and
guns on their heads. As soon as the SWIM
mers got within hearing distance of the party
on the shore, the leader Of them sang out:
"Whar's the ware"
That was old Tule Dad. He was then 66
years Of age, and was able to outswim even
the youngest of his companions, especially
when he thought there was a chance for a
bout with the reds. Such fights he looked
upon as regular, legitimate "war.n
He and party Of Missouri friends had, it
seems, been duck hunting on the opposite
shore among the tules and. hearing the firing,
imagined that an Indian fight was going on.
They therefore swan the river in order to
take hand in the fun.
The mans right name was Samuel K. Mat
ney. He never married, and the reason he
gave Tor it was that he could not Split an
armful OF oven wood in half minute" He
said that the women always sang out that
they "wanted an armful Of wood in just half
q minute" Half minute, he said, was too
short time for him. The old man was con-
scious to the last. and was aware that his end
was approaching. A few hours before his
death he talked with those about him; he
told that his race was nearly ended, but said
that he was ready to 60. and remarked: II
haven't been very bad man. I never did
worse than kill Indians, and don't
believe that will be held against me. had
TO do it," Tho fact is that the old follow had
really no conjunction in regard to shooting
Indians. He got over that when trapper,
and finally thought that in wiping the heather
of the face of the earth he was doing God a
'ervice.-Red Bluff (Cal) Cause.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1887-05-06
Historian and Libr.r,...

Mr.. Bancroft win not b seen ON horseback
this summer. He has sold his tall, gaunt bav
ne rode 40 often In company with Librari.n
Spofford. The historian now puts On ths
quaint German silk cap in which he did ~
riding, and takes brisk walk for his d,i,v
constitutional. Mr.. .Spofiord continues his
rides alone. A lank, grim visaged man. in q
dusty coat and a dingy tile, looking for AN
the world like Methodist circuit rider think.
ing out sermon, is the picture the librarian
makes as he rides on horseback, staring alb.
stractedly ahead and needless whether his
animal walks, trots or lies down.-Washins-
ton Letter
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1887-05-06
A Lady Artists Life.

Bertha Won Hillern, who has been gaining
a good deal OF success as an artist since she
quietly gave up pedestrianism a few years
ago, is a devoted Catholic. In the wilds of
West Virginia, where she spends her sum-
mers, she will walk ten miles and back under
the burning sun whenever the possibility &C.
ours Of attending mass. During her brief
winter sojourns in Boston she rises before
day, walks long distance to the cathedral,
attends the first mass, and walks back to her
hotel in time for an early breakfast.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1887-05-06

Near Mabel, CAL, one day, an Indian wo-
man was killed by falling over precipice
100 feet high. It seems she was going over
leading along the edge Of the precipice, when
her dog came suddenly behind her. and in
trying to pass crowded the woman over tho
bank. She was found at tie bottom Of the
canyon crushed to q pulp.-Chicags Times
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1887-05-06
The Blue Glass Theory.

One of Bridgeport's unmarried women d
said to be strong believer in the blue glass
theory. She dresses in blue silk, wears blue
spectacles, eats off blue glass dishes, lives in
room whose windows are Of blue glass, has
not quit this room'for more than ten minutes
at time for eight years, during which she
says she has not had an ache or pain.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1887-05-06
An Eminent OculIst.

Professor Art, the eminent oculist, of
vienna, died recently at the age of 73, after
long illness The late professor enjoyed .
world wide reputation as skillful operator
In affections of the eye. His operations for
cataract alone amounted to some 5000
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1887-05-06
How to Catch Rats.

MIR. Nathe Gill, near Meriweather, Ga,
being troubled with rats, filed caldron with
water, on which he sprinkled thick layer Of
cotton seed and bits Of tempting bait The
next morning he had fifty-two drowned rats
in the big pot, and the morning following
that there were forty-two more.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1887-05-06
The Champion "R,nr.r. .,

The newest champion to demand recogni-
ton as such is Michael Yerger, of Mont
gomery county, Pa, who glofies in having
inserted rings in the noses Of over 1900 pigs
during two years, being far ahead Of any
other man in the profession as far as heard
from
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1887-05-06
A Lady Teacher in Alabama.

A teachers life in Alabama is thus partly
described by a committeeman in letter to
an eastern friend: ''She tries to make every.
thing just as pleasant as she can. She doesn't
mind work. She takes the az and cuts wood
went to the woods one evening after school
and helped to saw of two cuts after O'Clock
The people are very wei satisfied with her, y
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1887-05-06
Chinese Tricks Of Trade.

Inhabitants Of northern Idaho are COM
planning Of the tricks in trade Of the Chinese
It b said that they mix gold dust worth Is an
ounce with that worth $40, and dispose Of IL
at the maximum figure. Besides this, they
fail 30 burn their fine dust sufficiently, there
by retaining much quicksilver, and also file
up silver dollars and mix the filings with the
gold
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1887-05-06

been brought to make sin attractive vice !.
horrible thing, anyhow. It is born in
shame and it dies bowling in the darkness
In this world it is scourged with a whip Of
scorpions, but afterward the thunders Of
Gods wrath pursue it across a boundles.
desert, beating it with ruin and wee. When
you come to paint carnality, do not paint it
as looking from behind embroidered curtains
or through lattice Of royal seraglio. but -
writing in the agonies Of . city hospital,
Cursed be the books that try to make i'm
purity decent and crime attractive and
hypocrisy noble Cursed be the books that
swarm with ibertines and desperadoes, who
mako the brain Of the young people whirl
with villainy. Ye authors who write them,
ye publishers who print them, ye booksellers
who distribute them shall 10 cut to pieces, IL
not by an aroused community, then at last by
the hail Of Divine vengeance, which shall
sweep to the lowest pit Of perdition all
ye murderers Of souls. I tell you, though
you may escape in this world, you win
be ground at last under tho hoof Of eternal
calamities, and you will be chained to tho
rock, and you will have the vultures Of des-
pair clawing at your soul. and those whom
you have destroyed will come around to tor
ment you, and to pour hotter Goals of fury
upon your head, and rejoice eternally in the
oubcry of your pain and the howl Of your
damnation. @God shall wound the hairy
scalp of him that goeth on in his trespases."
The clock strikes midnight. A fair form
bends over romance. The eyes flash fire.
The breath is quick and irregular. Occa.
sionally the color flashes to the cheek, and
then dies out The hands tremble as though
. guardian spirit were trying to shake the
deadly book out Of the grasp. Hot tears fall.
She laughs with shrill voice that drops dead
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1887-05-06

further to say that believe that ninety-nine
out of 100 novels in this day are baleful and
destructive to the last degree. A pure work
Of fiction is history and poetry combined. It
Is history of things around us with the
licenses and the assumed names of poetry.
The world can never pay the debt which it
owes to such fiction writer's as Hawthorne
and Mckenzie, and Landon and Hunt, and
Arthur and Marion Harland, and others
whose names are familiar to all The follies
of high life were never better exposed than
by Miss Edgeworth.. The memories Of the
past were never more faithfully enlbalmed
than in the writings Of Walter Scott.
.Coopers novels are healthfully redolent with
the breath q the seaweed and the air of the
American Forest Charles Kingsley has
smitten the morbidity Of the world, and led
a great many to appreciate the poetry of
sound health, strong muscles and fresh air.
1hackeray did grand work in caricaturing
the pretenders to gentility and high blood.
Dickens has built his own monument in his
books, which are an everlasting plea for the
poor and the anathema of injustice Nov, Isay,
books like these, read at right times, and read
in right proportion with other books, cannot
help but be ennobling and purifying; but, alas
for the loathsome and impure literature that
has come upon this country in the shape Of
novels, like freshet overlooking all the
banks of decency and common sensel They
are coming from some Of the most celebrated
publishing houses Of the country. They are
coming with recommendations of some of our
religious newspapers. They lie on your center
table to curse your children and blast with
their internal fires generations unborn. You
find these books in the desk of the school
miss, in the trunk Of the young man, In the
steamboat cabin. on the table of the hotel
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-13
Watching the Cholera.

DIR. Edward o. Shakespeare, of Philadel-
phia, who was sent to Europe to investigate
the cholera scourged districts, has been
making some experiments with cholera
germs obtained from the cholera infected
immigrants on Swinburne and Hoffman
Islands in New York harbor, and reports
that they developed exactly as they do in
the cholera districts of Southern Europe.
The impression is getting abroad in New
York that there has been a good deal of
carelessness in the management of the quar-
antined immigrants on Swinburne and
Hoffman Islands. 1t is reported that the
guards employed to prevent any one from
landing on or leaving the islands except those
authorized to do so are not sufficient in num-
Der to perform their duty satisfactorily. 1t
is also said that for two weeks the islands
were virtually unguarded, and that boats
carrying provisions and vegetables landed
at their wharves.
If these reports are true they show
condition of affairs that is rather alarming
to say the least of it. If a few cases of
cholera should appear in New York next
summer the whole country and the greater
part of the civilized world would quaran-
tine against her. Her commerce would be
checked and her business come to a stand
cholera immigrants may be the cause of a
calamity, the extent of which it is inn
possible TO foresee.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-13
Writing by Electricity.
From the Pol Mall Gnzette-

One of the most beautiful of modern inven-
tions-it remains to be seen whether it is as use
full as it is beautiful-the instrument devised by
Mr.. John Robertson, for the transmission of
writing by electricity. may now be seen at work
at the American exhibition. Out of the top of
a box, which is about the size of an ordinary
dispatch box, protrudeS what has the appear
ance of a stylographic pen This however, is
not pen, but the handle of the "transmitter
and its lower end is fixed to a light brass per-
pendicular bar. Any motion given by the hand
you hold it just like pen-to the handle of
the transmtter is communicated by this bar to
two series of carbon disks contained within the
box, and, after various adventures among mag
nets, etc, is carried again to the top of the box
where it is reproduced exactly by a small ink
holding PEN whose point rests on a white paper
tape. A clockwork apparatus pulls this tape
along at gentle pace; and after a little prac-
tice you find that it is quite easy to move the
handle of the transmitter so that the pen shall
write legibly on the moving tape.
Now, whatever is written on the tape before
you is written simultaneously mile off, or it
may be fifty miles off, on a similar tape, by
similar instrument at the other end of the wire
The instrument is very compact, and apparently
efficient; and, as it is quite silent, there seems
to be no reason why reporter sitting in the
House of Commons should not straightway
write off his report of debate to be iustanta-
neously read Off in Printing House Square or
Northumberland street. A name will be wanted
for his machine. Perhaps the wire writer
will